Walmart Reportedly Starting to Purge Physical Games Next Week
Walmart Reportedly Starting to Purge Physical Games Next Week
Walmart appears to be purging Xbox games starting next week.
Specifically Xbox Games.
Is there a word for something that isn't necessarily a conspiracy, but involves the unspoken collusion of mutual parties whose interests are aligned?
Tacit Collusion: a type of collusive behavior where firms coordinate their actions without explicitly communicating or reaching an agreement. Instead, firms may signal their intentions through various actions, such as pricing behavior or output levels, in order to coordinate their behavior and achieve higher profits.
Is there a word for something that isn't necessarily a conspiracy, but involves the unspoken collusion of mutual parties whose interests are aligned?
[Modern] Capitalism?
We told everyone no good would come from GamePass and here we are... You will own nothing and be happy.
I think a lot of the hating on Gamepass is justified, but I've just gotta say as a partially blind gamer it has been a godsend for me.
I used to struggle with whether or not to buy a game every single time because in most cases there is no way from descriptions and reviews for me to know how any given game will work with my vision and fine/gross motor impairment.
With gamepass I can try things and if I can't play it? I move on and try something else.
Kinda sad that we can't find some middle ground between making games accessible for disabled folks without bankrupting developers and ultimately hurting consumers.
Save you all the read, games won't be discounted or even sold for that matter. They are just being removed from shelves.
" An internal memo has surfaced online stating that all copies will be reduced to 3 cents and sales will be blocked by the store's system and then removed from the store. As of right now, it appears this is only for Xbox games, but this move was reported last October and it seems to be coming to fruition. It was noted that Microsoft is funding this move for Walmart in the memo, suggesting it may be Microsoft's decision and not Walmart's. "
"Can't have people playing games forever for a reduced price. Into the landfill with all the plastic!"
Far more interesting for that to be Microsoft’s decision than Walmart’s
It doesn't necessarily have to be.
It could be that Walmart was planning to start winding down physical game sales and made that clear to Microsoft, but Microsoft made a deal to foot the bill for extra inventory to keep supply available during the holidays. Even with packaging and distribution, the actual cost per game to Microsoft isn't really that high.
Is this going to be another ET situation where we find hundreds of Xbox games in a random desert 40 years from now because Microsoft wanted to kill physical copies?
I am stocking up on physical media... I am getting tired of not owning shit.
Like quit raping me world I just want to spend money and own things so I can give them to someone else or sell/trade them later.
right after they put in locking display cabinets for all the game discs here.......
I don't own an Xbox but I can take those copies off your hands at 3cents, Walmart.
What a big waste of plastic if they get thrown out.
So Amazon it is for physical copies?
So for 1 cent you can buy 33 disks and still say "keep the change".
Did you stop reading right at what you copied? The next sentence says all sales will be blocked. So you won't be able to buy it.
Sounds like the price reduction will be only in Walmart accounting system, so they can justify throwing them all away and write off the lost sales. I doubt they will actually sell all of those games.